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Trickstar is absolutely right. Marlon Samuels has a slower ODI strike rate than Trott, yet he never gets tagged as slow and boring. Everyone knows about the new regs changing the nature of ODI cricket, yet still too many people in the media try and typecast only England as being slow and regimented.

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June 13, 2013, 0:52 GMT

I don't get this talk of not having a plan b. What do other sides do if they find themselves 3 down for not many, they consolidate and try to kick on at the end, exactly the same as England would do, what else is there to do. You'd think England played a completely different game to everyone else but we don't SA, SL, NZ all do it the same. Cook since he became Captain has a s/r of 83, that's as good as any other opener around. Bell's scored more runs than anyone else this year and averages 53 at a s/r of 78. Trott the past year has a s/r 84 and a average of 79. Root averages 54 at a s/r of 84, seriously people seem to be looking for things to complain about. No team has a top 4 that scores at a run a ball consistently. I'd rather the top 3 bat a s/r of around 80 and get consistent big scores and allow the lower order to speed it up. The idea of a pinch hitter or taking silly chances in the first 15 overs is just not effective, not in England and not with the players we've got.

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